Alfred Olango’s Father Launches Police Reform Foundation

The nonprofit focuses on improving police training to prevent similar incidents that led to Olango’s fatal police-involved shooting.

The father of Alfred Olango, a mentally ill California man gunned down in September by police, announced the launch of a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving police training, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Speaking Saturday at a gathering in San Diego for victims of police brutality, Richard Olango said the organization would focus its reforms around psychology, human behavior, criminal justice and discipline.

“These are the foundation of police training. If you don’t pass these, you go back to police college,” he said, according to the Times.

El Cajon police Officer Richard Gonsalves shot Olango when, according to authorities, he took a “shooting stance” while aiming an object at police. It turned out that Olango, 38, was holding a smoke vape device.